WFB: Five Years Gone

National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. died five years ago today. My obituary of him appeared in the Michigan Review, my old college paper:

I still remember discovering National Review as a freshman almost twenty years ago, on the rack of a small library in Markley. Little did I know that I would come to write for the magazine professionally, or that I would get to know its famous founder, William F. Buckley, Jr.